EDIT: Sorry I did not make this clear. I am not presenting this as a techincal problem for admins to solve, but as a community problem. The kbin.social community as the larger instance is not seeking out communities from the smaller instances.
When searching for magazines (communities) the results almost always show either kbin.social or one of the major Lemmy instances.
I can pull the domains like https://kbin.social/d/fedia.io but when i try to pull a community like https://kbin.social/m/boardgames@fedia.io I get a 404 error.
To compound the problem lemmy communities are much more discoverable because they are listed on https://browse.feddit.de/. So even kbin users are largely interacting more through lemmy communities.
As far as I know there is no such tool to browse or search communities across all kbin instances. Does anyone know if the lemmy browser can include kbin instances?
Fedia.io, the largest other kbin instance seems to have lots of communities on the vine because we largely do not interact with them. But they see the rest of the fediverse like we do.
If we want other instances to grow like kbin.social has we probably need to resolve this disconnect between kbin communities.
https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list
Try https://kbin.social/search?q=boardgames%40fedia.io I just trigged it to federate into kbin.social for you
For lemmy federated communities you can trigger them by pasting the full https:// url in. For pulling in other kbin communities you want to use @community@domain.whatever for the search.
Reminder that you will only see new content, going forward from the time the first user searched on your instance for the same community
What happens when I search for an instance and nothing comes up in the search? Try again later?
That almost certainly happens if you have the format wrong. What community were you trying to federate into kbin?
https://tabletop.place for example, but definitely not the only instance.
Since that's a kbin instance, this is how you do it https://i.imgur.com/OuNfuzK.png
I get that, but none of them were coming up before. It must have pulled over in the meantime.
New content from the time the first user on your instance subscribed to the community. Searching for it doesn't signal to the remote website that anything need to be delivered here in an ongoing fashion. It shoukd just create the local magazine.
I tried using the full https:// URL for a lemmy community I know exists, and the main instance is federated with kbin, but it's showing an "Empty" for me, while I know it's not. Am I doing it wrong?
edit: Tried it again using community@lemmy.world and now it works. I guess when there's a federation it still doesn't pull all the comunities at once? It wasn't working yesterday.
Yooo thank you! I was trying to subscribe to the Knicks community from lemmy.world from kbin, but it wasn't showing up with the usual https://kbin.social/m/nyknicks@lemmy.world.
Doing the search in the format you provided just triggered it for me.
This is so cool, haha.
Thank you, that did it!!!